Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Wednesday, June 15

Today was pretty hard for Rob and Jenny, saying goodbye in person for the last time. Sometimes this happens in life - we say goodbye to someone and something happens after that and they are gone. But there is something about KNOWING that this is the final goodbye, that makes it very heart wrenching.

Rob was like a cat on a hot tin roof all morning I think, and finally reverted to having a drink of scotch. The thing you have to know about Rob's drink of scotch, and she is very quick to tell you, is that they are a 1/2 shot, or a halfa nip as she says. Anyway, hopefully that helped to settle her a bit.

Before we left for the ferry Linda Schmidt came down from Denman Island to spend the night (at this moment Linda, a rabid Canucks fan is quietly watching the final game which is not exactly going in our favour). She was followed by Shannon, Sophie and Max, who were followed by Carl. Before it was time to go I rounded up all but Jenny and Rob and took them from the kitchen to the living room so Rob and Jenny could have a private goodbye. Rob left on the 3 pm ferry while Linda looked after Jenny.

Jenny has actually been doing pretty well over the past few days, all things considered.

I took photos off of Rob's camera this morning so I thought I would put a few of them below.

Checking into the hospital for the permanent drain insertion


The catheter procedure has been done


Jenny and I in our kitchen


Rob and Jenny on the deck


Going through Jenny's photos with Marg, Sandy Rob and I


Hats R Us

P.S. Sadly, the Canucks lost the hockey game. Maybe next year. So near yet so far.